2 volumes. xxvii, [1], 40, [2], 452; [36], 350, [4], 71, [30] pp. With 7 copper-engraved maps & plans, 5 of them folding; folding table; frontispiece portrait. (4to) 10½x8½, period speckled calf, rebacked with later calf tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, later endpapers. First Edition.
Handsome copy of the life of the great Swedish king who became the champion of Protestant Germany. With errata leaf in each volume, that in Vol. I having one additional erratum pasted onto the leaf - in some copies, there were two additional errate. In Volume one, the corrections have, in many cases, been penciled in the margins. Ownership signatures of Thos. Assheton, dated 1759, to the title-pages.
Condition:
Some shelf wear, scuffs to covers; some offsetting and foxing, a few instances of marginal dampstaining, else very good.